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Forecasting software delivery. Engineering's new best friend.

Allstacks

Due dates have long been viewed as toxic – a leftover artifact of the waterfall days of yore. This type of development generated countless horror stories, especially in the software boom of the 1980s. With this, we moved into the next generation of software engineering.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. This was informed by his experiences with Sketchpad, Simula, Smalltalk, and his code of commercial software. He formulated the idea of laptops, tablets, and e-books. Awards and Recognitions.

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Software Testing and Agile

Coveros

Take a moment to think about where you were in February of 2001—at the inception of the Agile Manifesto. I was with a privately held software engineering firm focused on helping organizations transform their software testing capabilities. We called it “Test Transformations”. 2011–2020 and Beyond. 2011–2020 and Beyond.

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Reviewing Top Software Development Tools For 2021 – Better & The Best

Xicom

The software industry evolves too fast! According to Coding Sans annual report , the challenges software developers in Dubai and across face were knowledge sharing and capacity. According to Coding Sans annual report , the challenges software developers in Dubai and across face were knowledge sharing and capacity.

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AppDev 101: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use Agile Software Development

Datavail

In 2001, a group of expert software developers created the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. That document started a movement in the software development world and many teams now use the Agile software development approach. What is Agile Software Development? Benefits of Agile Software Development.

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Taking an Extreme Approach to Software

Coveros

. “Extreme Programming turns the conventional software process sideways. I was searching for something related to software engineering and stumbled across a paper on Extreme Programming (XP) by Kent Beck. At that time, optimizing your Waterfall software process was all the rage. I remember it like it was yesterday.

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A Practical Approach for Shifting Left

Tenable

As a critical part of DevSecOps, shifting left has become a key aspect of the modern software development process. Traditionally, security was applied at the end of the software development lifecycle (the right side) and treated as an afterthought. Test-driven development is centered on shift left testing in the coding phase.